"It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey……" — Mary McCarthy

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt,… - Mary McCarthy

"It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants."

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81 Quotes by Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy has 81 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In violence, we forget who we are
A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the…
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our…
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in…
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was…
The happy ending is our national belief.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or…
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a…

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I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream… — Neil Armstrong
If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret. — Eve Arnold
I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was,… — Darren Aronofsky
These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see… — Diane Ackerman
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd
In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some… — Michelle Bachelet
Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs… — Michele Bachmann
I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people,… — Michele Bachmann

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